| SUB | 1. | Orphan Trains of Kansas |
| "Beginning in 1854, charitable institutions in New York City began sending orphans on trains to the west to find new families, feeling that the children would fare better out west than on the streets of New York. Orphan trains arrived in Kansas between 1867 and 1930, and some 5000-6000 children... |
| http://www.kancoll.org/articles/orphans/ | More... |
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| SUB | 2. | Uncle Tom's cabin and American culture: a multimedia archive |
| "'Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture' is a comprehensive Web archive of photos, movie clips, bibliographical, and archival information on Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic anti-slavery novel (based on John P. Jewett's 1852 edition) 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and its legacy. The text of the first... |
| http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/ | More... |
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| SUB | 3. | Women Working, 1870 - 1930 |
| "Women Working, 1870 - 1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Working conditions, conditions in... |
| http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/ | More... |
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| SUB | 4. | Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930 |
| "The years between 1870 and 1930 marked the emergence of Chicago as a dominant American city, undergoing some of the most dramatic and extensive social, political and economic changes in our national history. Against this backdrop we present a unique record-the Chicago Police Department... |
| http://homicide.northwestern.edu/ | More... |
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| SUB | 5. | The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th-Century Britain |
| The site features selections from a 1930 book on English industrial history and provides "[e]xcerpts from contemporary documents on child labour, work hours, and sanitary conditions." |
| http://faynights.users.btopenworld.com/Laura/Worker/index.html | More... |
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| Clio-online | 6. | World War 1 Canadian Ship Listing |
| "This list attempts to give an accurate and in-depth look at the ships that served with the Royal Canadian Navy from its inception in 1910 until 1930." For each ship, a description of the its characteristics and a photography (with providence) is provided. |
| http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/canada/ww1/ | More... |
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| SUB | 7. | Norway in America: Thor M. Andersen Bibliography (TMA) |
| TMA is an on-line bibliography of documents printed between 1825 and 1930 by and/or about Norwegian emigrants to the US and Canada. The bibliography lists references to books and brochures as well as to articles in newspapers and periodicals published throughout the world mainly in English and... |
| http://www.nb.no/baser/tma/TMAtekst_eng.html | More... |
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| SUB | 8. | History of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States |
| This is an online course on the history of the American civil rights movement. It provides some short biographical sketches, along with images and some related links. |
| http://hum.lss.wisc.edu/bplummer/hist628/index.html | More... |
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